Peter Plagens

Peter Plagens
Peter Plagensis an American art critic, painter, and novelist. From 1989 until 2003 Plagens was a senior writer and art critic for Newsweek. As a novelist, Plagens is the author of Time for Roboand The Art Critic, which was and is serialized online at artnet. As a painter, he has been represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York...
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It's like having a little tape recorder in your head that is playing at an incredibly high speed at an incredibly low volume. A little voice telling you about all the things you'd seen and considered, and your thoughts, and you just want to get them out of your head. They can tend to get into your work.
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Honestly, I never had a market where people were standing in line. So, I wasn't under any pressure to be cranking out something in order to pay for my sports car,
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I like touch. I like to make twists and turns -- but I don't want (my paintings) to be too elegant.